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What is the Ad Hominem Fallacy? The ad hominem fallacy occurs when someone attacks the person making an argument rather than the argument itself. This fallacy diverts attention from the actual issue ...

It has been suggested that approximately five exabytes (i.e. about 5,000,000,000 pickup truck beds full of information typed on paper) of data are created each day. What is tougher to decipher is how ...

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MR. ACKERMANN is the author of a successful book on popular fallacies, now in its third edition. Early in 1925 he was engaged by the British Broadcasting Company to give a series of talks on popular ...